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    E.B. White
    “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
    ― E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: charlotte, charlotte-s, web
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    Matt de la Peña
    “Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.”
    ― Matt de la Pena, Last Stop on Market Street
    tags: beauty, compassion, empathy, witness
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    Margaret Mead
    “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: individuality, unique
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Ellen Potter
    “It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.”
    ― Ellen Potter, The Kneebone Boy
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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    E.M. Forster
    “Only connect!”
    ― E.M. Forster, Howards End
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    Beverly Cleary
    “If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”
    ― Ramona Quimby as written by Beverly Cleary, Ramona's World
    tags: humor, librarians, spelling
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    Lorrie Moore
    “Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. ”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
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    Amy Krouse Rosenthal
    “It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.”
    ― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
    tags: beliefs, bowling, leaning, sports
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    Jennifer Egan
    “There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    Martin Jenkins
    “When it comes to looking after all the species that are already endangered, there's such a lot to do that sometimes it might all seem to be too much, especially when there are so many other important things to worry about. But if we stop trying, the chances are that pretty soon we'll end up with a world where there are no tigers or elephants, or sawfishes or whooping cranes, or albatrosses or ground iguanas. And I think that would be a shame, don't you?”
    ― Martin Jenkins, Can We Save the Tiger?
    tags: animals, endangered-species
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    “On Thursday morning, May 2, 1963, nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks woke up with freedom on her mind. But, before she could be free, there was something important she had to do. "I want to go to jail," Audrey had told her mother. Since Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks thought that was a good idea, they helped her get ready.”
    ― Cynthia Levinson, We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
    tags: birmingham, civil-rights-movement
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    Mary Norton
    “...Borrower's don't steal."
    "Except from human beings," said the boy.
    Arrietty burst out laughing; she laughed so much that she had to hide her face in the primrose. "Oh dear," she gasped with tears in her eyes, "you are funny!" She stared upward at his puzzled face. "Human beans are for Borrowers - like bread's for butter!”
    ― Mary Norton, The Borrowers
    tags: point-of-view, stealing
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    Malcolm X
    “The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: books, literature, living, reading, words
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    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I won't say another word -- not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don't, you'd give me some credit for it.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: anne-shirley, talking-too-much
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    Germaine Greer
    “A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
    ― Germaine Greer
    tags: innocence, libraries, reading, sexuality, virginity
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    Langston Hughes
    “Folks, I'm telling you,
    birthing is hard
    and dying is mean-
    so get yourself
    a little loving
    in between.”
    ― Langston Hughes
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  • #21
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    “You can know things all you like, and someday you might believe them.”
    ― Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War I Finally Won
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    Bryan Stevenson
    “The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.”
    ― Bryan Stevenson
    tags: social-justice
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    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E. B. White
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.”
    ― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    tags: life
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    Marilynne Robinson
    “Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
    tags: gilead
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    Thanhhà Lại
    “Fate did not grant him the privilege to see our children reach adulthood or the pleasure to witness our wrinkles writing stories on our faces, but in the time we were allowed, we knew our treasures.”
    ― Thanhha Lai, Listen, Slowly
    tags: death-of-a-loved-one, fate, wrinkles
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    Elizabeth Wein
    “KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!”
    ― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
    ― Montaigne, Les Essais
    tags: books
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    George Eliot
    “It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
    ― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, wisdom
    93 likes



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